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Books for readers who love the geological adventure and the world within the world
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864) opened the inner Earth as imaginative space — Professor Lidenbrock, Axel, and Hans find a subterranean ocean with prehistoric creatures. These 8 books share its descent into the unknown, its contrast between the enthusiast and the reluctant companion, and its magnificent impossible discoveries.
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Buy on AmazonVingt mille lieues sous les mers
by Jules Verne
The companion voyage into another great unknown — Captain Nemo's ocean as the horizontal equivalent of Professor Lidenbrock's vertical descent
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Buy on AmazonLe Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours
by Jules Verne
The surface-world companion adventure — Fogg's race across the globe as the social, comic version of the geological solitude
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The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
The English scientific romance that descends through time rather than space — Wells's Time Traveller reaching the world's end as Lidenbrock reaching the world's interior; both are journeys into the ultimate unknown
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Buy on AmazonThe Lost World
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Doyle's plateau of living dinosaurs — Professor Challenger finding prehistoric life on a South American mesa as Lidenbrock finds it in the Earth's interior; the same combination of scientific enthusiasm and manic certainty
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Buy on AmazonL'Île mystérieuse
by Jules Verne
The castaways who discover a volcanic island's geological secrets — the closest Verne comes to the geological wonder of the centre of the Earth on the surface
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Buy on AmazonAt the Mountains of Madness
by H.P. Lovecraft
Lovecraft's Antarctic expedition that finds what should not exist — the same structure as Verne's descent, with the Cosmic Horror substituted for Verne's prehistoric wonder
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Buy on AmazonWatership Down
by Richard Adams
The underground world as community — Adams's rabbits in their warrens share with Verne's subterranean ocean the quality of an alternate world with its own laws, as richly imagined as the surface world above
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Buy on AmazonTreasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The companion classic adventure of descent and discovery — Stevenson and Verne together define the nineteenth-century adventure novel; both offer the pleasure of a map and the suspense of what the map conceals
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